What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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RE: mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116

"In 2018, CAMRA published a position paper titled ActivityPub: Preserving the Chalkboard Standard, which argued that the physical board remained “the only trustworthy and fully decentralised method of communicating pub activities,” noting that it required no internet connection, could not be algorithmically suppressed, and was resistant to outages except in cases of rain or vandalism."

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I Guess I’m now the first ever Indiekit Instance on the #fediverse

Thanks to Fedify

{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1"
  ],
  "type": "Person",
  "id": "https://rmendes.net/",
  "preferredUsername": "rick",
  "name": "Ricardo Mendes",
  "url": "https://rmendes.net/",
  "inbox": "https://rmendes.net/activitypub/inbox",
  "outbox": "https://rmendes.net/activitypub/outbox",
  "followers": "https://rmendes.net/activitypub/followers",
  "following": "https://rmendes.net/activitypub/following",
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "https://rmendes.net/#main-key",
    "owner": "https://rmendes.net/",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA4F2MDzCr5lYiI9LSFpf4\nsysMIQK63Po5FkVPKzfQSdxHJjYEFqniKRHa+gpQzg0aadSWMIsBbZWvVKypKZZR\nd3g3LDvtV6zyCOdQ0XUxp4ggYmvj22VcdZkyeygMSxkl9D8zr6U5TzAEfPYBMUMx\nwruTUAAFpyLQTCQmSCcMllxlPvgeHCF54VYg8QArTvvYz9G7IMsjR1OWM1AAg2Iy\n1UevOPBLVdSt2SBYf1GccsLjHEwgPTFT2iBtE2FTwlVgthOpEG5imB1Up0G1gZtA\nA5RCG1nR9ymRCFpDfg5Awtx+vtNCQ64guM1yjMeKEk7KJoULWqF2O+iEzvyR/BPq\n8QIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "summary": "Personal website of Ricardo Mendes",
  "icon": {
    "type": "Image",
    "url": "https://rmendes.net/images/user/avatar.jpg"
  },
  "alsoKnownAs": [
    "https://mstdn.social/users/rmdes"
  ]
}

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/19/8b1d5

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CW: Extreme hate on big tech social media

The difference between the and big tech social media during the last week:

On and people told me that they liked my work and wished me a lovely day.

On Instagram people told me that I'm a sick piece of meat and I should hang myself.

I know my tribe.

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I've had a few people ask why I didn't post the full Matrix email on my Fedi thread. There are two reasons:

  1. It wouldn't fit in 1k characters.
  2. Listen carefully:

Y'know how "just getting caught cheating on your monogamous partner" isn't the right time to discuss exploring ethical nonmonogamy?

In a similar vein, asking for information while dismissing a report as "no practical security impact" is still dismissing the goddamn report.

I excerpted the part of their email where they dismissed my report. That was the part that initiated the immediate disclosure. The inciting turn of phrase.

It doesn't matter how much you piss on my leg, I'm not going to believe it's raining.

Matrix has many incentives to lie or mislead. Their leadership includes the CEO of a company whose product is a Matrix client. There's active political talks about the EU investing heavily in Matrix. He's got a vested interest in looking good, even at the expense of doing or even being good.

On the other hand, I have nothing to gain. If everyone switches to Matrix tomorrow, nothing in my life changes. If Matrix self-implodes and everyone goes back to XMPP tomorrow, nothing in my lfie changes.

The only things I want are:

  1. End-to-end encryption to be better.
  2. End-to-end encryption to become ubiquitous for communication protocols and apps.
  3. The large tech companies whose business models involve privacy violations and stealing from artists and other creative workers to burn down so gloriously that society forgets the word "billionaire" in twenty years.
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Those meme posts about "You can just get it on Telegram, it's on Stoat, check it out on ..." started including Zulip at some point after I started talking about it and I like to think I changed the zeitgeist around here just a tiny bit.

Not that I necessarily recommend it for most groups. I'm not afraid to host big stacks if their front-facing stuff meets needs of the group, and it definitely is a big stacky thing.

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Hi there, I’m Maddy.

I’m an American/German creator based in southern France. I’ve been over on Youtube for the past year, but hope contributing with content over here will help introduce more people to the and a different kind of social media experience.

I talk about:









📞💿📚🎲

Big thanks to @andypiper and @_elenaElena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM for introducing me to this world.

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These are all things I plan to cover in the Poetic course, but I'd love your input and questions! Where are you having the most issues, what piques your curiosity, and where do you have questions?

Feel free to select multiple, or reply with other topics & specific questions!

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